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Everyone go check out the arcane tag the lesbians are losing it
#incredibly valid of them btw#this is not an attack this is me nodding in sympathy#some of them are losing it because caitvi clearly goes on the rocks#some of them are losing it because vi has an emo pit fighter arc#and#I cannot stress this enough#she looks so cool doing it#face paint muscled k-o-ing men twice her size#like she’s clearly not emotionally healthy but she’s built and in black and has great hair#I cannot blame them even a little bit#I relate more to jinx but I think vi is so cool#also the more I watch clips of arcane the more I know I’m going to cry watching it#I’m going to need a month and a half to watch the season#current status#I don’t want people to perceive this post so I’m not tagging arcane#I just want the mutuals to know
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“When toxic behavior is portrayed as romantic, it’s problematic. When problematic behavior is portrayed as a character flaw for a character to work through, it’s good storytelling.”
Katsuki Bakugou, my friends.
His behavior was problematic but never once portrayed as romantic at the same time. Katsuki said and did awful abusive things, and he also chose to be better when he was given the chance. If you’re still hung up on chapter 1 Katsuki now then I don’t think you’ve been reading the same story I have.
I can’t speak for everyone, but I’m not shipping Izuku with an irredeemable abuser. I’m shipping him with his most important person. His narrative foil. His childhood friend who made awful mistakes and then made it right when he saw he was wrong. The person Izuku looks up to and strives to emulate, despite their past struggles.
Bakudeku is so good because of how flawed these boys are, and how hard they’ve worked to get over it, and how much they matter to each other after it all
#perfect stories about perfect people who never do anything wrong are usually boring#stories about growth and mistakes and redemption and forgiveness and progress are lit#bkdk#bakudeku#the quote is from cinema therapy on YouTube btw#love them so much#they look at media and talk about what is and isn’t good from a real life human perspective#and boy did this quote slap me in the face#anyway this is my thought literally any time anyone says something about shipping Izuku with his abuser#if he was still being abused then I get it#but he’s not#and saying he needs protection from Katsuki is honestly doing his character dirty#and this is not to say that every situation with an abuser and a victim should turn out romantic#obviously not#the world is not black and white and neither are people#sometimes you have to get yourself out and never look back and that is valid and healthy#but sometimes you’re talking about two boys in a manga who literally cannot stop thinking about how good and incredible the other is#bro I get it#surface level chapter/episode 1 Katsuki is literally the worst#but his glow up has been literally meteoric
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As someone who admittedly has attention issues of my own, I think it's important to talk about how attention is a skill that can be learned and often requires conscious and focused effort to build. I think a lot of people despair over the current state of media --- short-form algorithm-driven content that is built to snare and lure and diminish people's attention spans for profit --- and while that despair is certainly built off of legitimate concerns, I want to stress that the damage being done is not irreversible.
Over the course of the COVID-19 lockdowns I fried my brain so intensely with tik toks and instagram reels that I was getting bored 2 seconds into a 5 second video and was finding myself scrolling so quickly that I wasn't even watching anymore. I was lethargic and unhappy and though my mood was definitely simultaneously impacted by the hovering doom of COVID-19 and living in complete isolation for months at a time (I don't recommend that, BTW), I found myself losing passion for the things I loved doing: drawing, reading, and writing. I felt miserable and useless and incredibly guilty for leaving my productive and fulfilling hobbies behind while I chased... not even happiness. Just something to occupy my brain and turn it into mush.
As time passed I realized that I wasn't even having fun on tik tok anymore. I'd see funny videos and get a rush of endorphins, and then the next second I would have completely forgotten what I just watched. I was refreshing social media pages to see numbers I didn't even care about. Everything was an endless loop of swapping between different apps, just time passing and passing and my attention span dipping lower and lower until I would go for days without feeling any sense of joy or accomplishment.
And this was most definitely aided by the fact that I was unemployed and stuck in a terrible worldwide epidemic, but as soon as I deleted the tik tok app and put harsh time limits on instagram (15 minutes a day, which I rationed compulsively) I suddenly wanted to draw again. I started reading books again. I started writing and spending time outside and getting inspiration from the world around me.
Now, years later, I work with teenagers whose lives are dictated by their phones. My coworkers often lament the state of the world today --- which, again, is a valid stance to have --- but in the few months after my workplace implemented a no phones policy, I watched disengaged students bounce back to productivity. Instead of scrolling during lectures they paid attention and asked questions and engaged their peers in conversation. During lunch they played board games and talked to each other. Students even told me about how they didn't even want to go on their phones when they got home from school!
It isn't perfect, and I'm not advocating for a world devoid of phones, but I just want to highlight that these neural pathways can be built and exercised. People's brains are resilient and fascinating and much stronger and more adaptable than many people are willing to give them credit for.
I've expanded my time limits across more apps on my phone, setting days where I can't even access social media at all from my phone, and in that short period of time I've found myself far more engaged with the world around me. I've been zipping my phone up in a bag instead of keeping it in my pocket, adding a step to access it, and I've found that that alone is keeping me from using it to a huge degree. I'll toss my phone across the room when I find myself on it when I don't have any reason to be scrolling. And it's helping!
My main message here is that it's never too late to focus on your focus. Change and improvement doesn't happen until you make an effort on your own.
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will you write more parts for the yandere!fan fic? 🫣
STALKER! YANDERE BOY X GN! READER (PART 2)
WARNINGS: stalking, mentions of murder, regular yandere tendencies, gender neutral reader
A/N: damn that first part did a lot better than i thought it would, thank you guys! so how about i bring in a second yandere… i’m naming this yandere victor, and the yandere in the first part is bayani. (btw the art below is by RIP2_)
part one (with bayani) right here! a third part is coming soon, featuring both bayani and victor when they realize they both are pining for you...

stalker! yandere boy that puts in more effort than superfan! yandere boy to catch your attention. bayani could never love you. he can barely even handle you looking at him, what makes you think he’s the right one for you? he’s just a lowly coward. victor is the one for you. he loves you so much. more than bayani.
stalker! yandere boy that doesn't care about your music. not one bit. because he loves you for you! who cares what your music sounds like? he doesn't care what genre it is, or if you even have a good voice or not. he'd be the best boyfriend for you because he treats you like an actual human, not just some singing machine. besides, he personally prefers metal. maybe he can listen to it with you when you get together! it sounds like a delightful date.
stalker! yandere boy that follows you around wherever you go. he tracks your travelling patterns, and visits whatever places you visit at the exact same time. whether you fly private, commercial, or even use a train or car. doesn't matter. he will follow you. where you go, he goes.
stalker! yandere boy that would go as far as to disguise himself as someone else in order to interact with you and gain your attention. you go eat at a restaurant? victor would kill a random waiter, steal their uniform, and take their place. you stay at a hotel? he's posing as room service and will steal your clothes and belongings tidy up your room! he'll even use the key to your room to walk in and watch you sleep at night. you just look so enchanting in your sleep, how can he resist? it's not wrong, he's just keeping you safe. he is the only one that can make sure you are happy and healthy. in victor's eyes, even the strongest bodyguard cannot keep you safe. you don't need anyone else. just him.
stalker! yandere boy that tries to catch your attention anytime he can. he needs you to notice him. he needs you to say something to him, talk to him, touch him, know him, acknowledge his existence. victor needs you to validate his existence in order to continue living. without you, what would he do? he cannot handle being away from you. he cannot handle being alone. don't leave him alone. don't leave him alone. don't leave him alone. he needs you.
stalker! yandere boy that gets jealous easily. you collab with another artist or you're seen holding hands with someone in public? he's spreading a fake rumor about whoever it is and ruining their life. you shouldn't be so stupid. why associate with someone else when you have him? why ditch him for someone else? he's right there. he can be better than them. who cares what they look or sound like? victor's so much better. he can show you how much better he is, if you give him a chance.
stalker! yandere boy that is so desperate for any kind of attention from you. it doesn't matter if it's positive or negative attention. he always plays it cool and acts all smug and calm when you notice him, but on the inside he is resisting the urge to grab you and run away from the world. all he wants is to have a peaceful, isolated life with you. away from the disgusting people in the world. you and victor can be happy together.
stalker! yandere boy that is incredibly clingy. you know you need him, right? he must be near you at all times. his presence keeps you alive and happy. you keep HIM happy. he needs you. you both need each other. if he can't see or feel your presence, he will go insane. that is why he travels anywhere you go. that is why he must go to each and every one of your concerts and meet-and-greets. you assumed he was just a big fan to be at every single event, but you just can't see that he loves you much more than just some fan.
stalker! yandere boy that just wants to be with you! let him be around you. let him completely obsess over you, touch you, love you, do whatever he wants to you. he won't hurt you! he just wants a little bit of freedom to say and do whatever he wants to you once you are together, so he can make sure you don't leave him. he will make you feel so good, so loved, so appreciated. nobody will ever love you more than he does.
but there may be someone that rivals his affections. a lowly, masochistic, scrawny pest that thinks he loves you more. victor will have to do something about it before your little superfan finally decides to man up and make a move on you.
#yandere x reader#yandere male#possessive yandere#male yandere x reader#yandere x darling#yandere#yandere imagines#gn reader#yandere oc#yandere x you#x reader#yandere requests#yandere oneshot#yandere fic#yandere drabble#yandere boys x popstar reader#yandere headcanons#soft yandere#crazy yandere#yandere blurb#my ocs#male yandere#clingy yandere#obsessive yandere#obsessive love#yandere boy#yandere boyfriend
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So, ICE just arrested the mayor of Newark, NJ for investigating the illegal ICE detention center in the city. Having the detention center there is against New Jersey law.
Right-leaning media is going to say he was trespassing and, if he was--though it does not sound like he was, then regular police could have arrested him.
THIS is a show. This is Homan, who heads ICE, trying to rattle and intimidate the public officials who have said their cities and states will not cooperate with illegal ICE activities. Because they are... illegal.
Various government officials and groups are speaking out against the arrest right now. There are also protests. And I suspect, based on past actions at least, eventually the govt will release the mayor after a lot of blustering and terribly handled legal attempts to hold him.
This goes along with Stephen Miller today talking about trying to suspend habeas corpus. That requires a war or an extreme situation, btw. The regime keeps claiming there is an invasion and a war and not proving it in court (also after a certain amount of time, Congress has to declare war for this to be valid). But they are claiming there is a threat to the Constitution--suddenly the Constitution matters to these people. Schroedinger's Constitution, I guess.
This is also meant to rattle and intimidate people. Stephen Miller is not an attorney. He's not a scholar of the Constitution. And this wasn't Trump saying it and it wasn't in the Oval Office. Miller was probably putting it out there to see how people would respond. If America would sit back and take it.
So far, the people in New Jersey have been showing up.
But again, I just want to remind people that yes, these people are dangerous. They are dangerous because they don't care about hurting others but also because most of them are incredibly bad at their jobs and make mistakes constantly.
But they are also doing this stuff *because* there is resistance, because more and more Americans are not happy. And by that I mean, even MAGA are peeling off from the cult, and you can tell this from the polls, and from the fact that even some mainstream media is starting to push back (ever so slightly) on the narrative, and because some Republicans in congress are quietly objecting to some of 47's ideas, and because the use of bots is increasing online which means you aren't arguing with MAGA because a lot of MAGA have left the chat.
(People love to toss around the "drinking the Kool Aid" stuff about cults and MAGA, but as a quick reminder, many in Jonestown had seen through Jones' facade and were terrified and wanted to leave but simply had no way to do so. Many cult members do in fact reach a point where they have questions and realize something is wrong.)
As Rachel Maddow said a while ago, the more the regime loses in court, the more cities and governors tell them no, the more protests there are, the more the boycotts work, the more Trump has to back down on his tariffs and make nice with the countries he insulted, the weirder and wilder they are going to get with their cruelty.
But they do mean the cruelty. These people would happily send immigrants to Libya on the *suspicion* that they have committed a misdemeanor. Don't underestimate them. Prepare yourselves.
But also they (Trump especially) are desperate to get massive public opinion on their side again. They need a win. And to a fascist, winning means shows of strength, whether or not the shows of strength work or are even popular.
They also want distractions from the fact that Trump has started to deflate and back down and lower the tariffs against China today. Because that's embarrassing for him and they don't want the news cycle to be about how he's lowered it now to 80% instead of 145%. (80% still isn't low enough, btw. But the public step back is what matters.)
Also they want a distraction from the empty ports, and the truckers losing jobs, and Newark Airport (and all of America's airports) being incredibly unsafe, and from the new Pope not liking them, and from Bill Gates saying Musk is killing children, and so on.
Also remember a lot of these unqualified people are already showing signs of cracking. These are high pressure jobs even for the qualified, and well, these people are not qualified. Many of these things they do seem to initially be mistakes by underlings that they then double down on because, again, fascism is about moving forward and showing strength and not backing down even when it makes political sense.
BUT, this fascist regime is Trump-helmed. And he can and will throw his people under the bus if he wants public opinion on his side (or wants to avoid jail). He has already blamed "his lawyers" for the court losses and is now saying the tariff situation is all "Scotty B" (Scott Bessant). He reportedly is already pissed off at Hegseth for embarrassing him and I doubt he feels great about Kristi Noem getting reamed by Congress. He also hates that MSNBC has been reporting on the airport failures all day and has been ranting about them about on Truth Social. Oh and the Republicans in congress can't agree on the bill Trump wants, so it might not go forward. See?
The situation is fragile and scary.
BUT this is (probably) why it's happening. And to be clear, America has done this sort of shit in its history before. Maybe not on quite this level, but we have. Pushing back against it is also something that we've done before.
(And before anyone can @ me about it. Jim Crow legislation was authoritarian violence leveled against American citizens. How America treated Mexican workers in the 20s and 30s helped give Hitler ideas. There are plenty of persons on US soil who have been kidnapped and disappeared by local governments or the federal government in our history. That is why they don't want us knowing our history--both to hide our sins and to hide how America, eventually, responded to those sins.)
The most dangerous time with an abuser is when the abuser thinks you might leave them. So yes, this is terrifying. But also, so is staying with them.
p.s. today's date is 5/9/25. You all need to enable the post date on posts you see so you stop reblogging old news.
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Vivziepop is still Transphobic 10 years later!
(I'm writing this as a trans non-binary person btw)
Basically: "Transmen are only depressed females who are ashamed of being women" In other screenshots, she has another pfp, which people already knew she had a Blitz pfp, people thought it was fake cause of the moe pfp. But right here there was proved it was her. Dates match up and all. This is all in 2023!
This is directly from Ken btw, who they were friends with- and worked on Hazbin. Also wrote a most of the fucking pilot and got ""additional writing" credits... plus the Cherry bomb thing too!
"I honestly believe it's incredibly rare, VALID as hell, but rare"
Based on this few messages alone, you should realize her ""acceptance"" of trans-people is selective as fuck. She also NEEDED to state the trans people are rare, so bad here too. I as a trans person, I have always considered this a BIG red flag! Because people who say that are ready to invalidate others on the idea of "trans people are rare, you must not be trans because you don't fit my standard!"
Here she is using She/Her on Ken who uses only They/Them. She already knew Ken as a friend, so the misgendering here is just rotten.
All of this is recent as fuck! Since Hazbin was getting made until 2023! This one below, of Salem, shows xe experienced the same thing during the start of Helluva Boss. (Below there is a link to a threat talking about Viv being terrible to xem!)

Here also seems to be another trans character, from millie's siblings! Designed to be transmasc?
Oh fuck me, never mind! They changed his design to be a cis male imp.
I have already talked about how I personally feel about how Sallie may is treated! Viv treats all trans characters and people terrible, and she has something against transmasc people specially. -And for someone so selectively transphobic, with all of her comments-she is transphobic against Non-binary people! I mean, she already didn't respect the usage of them/they pronouns, so... She can not go around saying this shit of telling queer stories and people who critique me are being homophobic WHEN SHE IS LIKE THIS.
This is older, too! Viv has being transphobic back then and still is! Drawing a caricature of a transman you don't like -like this!?
This is a meme video that Vivziepop did too. This is rotten. People sure can change, but this woman has being transphobic over 10 years, like... I don't know how old is this character but- you can search fan art of this character since 2015...
Again please read:

#vivziepop critical#helluva boss critique#helluva boss criticism#vivziepop critique#helluva boss critical#hazbin hotel critical#hazbin hotel criticism#hazbin hotel critique#transphobes
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in ur last svt post (which made me fold btw) you mentioned you love doing bf thoughts (and we love reading them!!) so i’m gonna be the one to do it… any dirty bf!wonwoo headcanons sweetie? 🫣
not me dropping two wonwoo asks in one day like i’m not hansol biased i’m gonna run away 🏃♀️ he’s so husband material tho (getting back into my svt phase is fun 🙂↕️)
lmaoo honestly it's valid being whipped for wonwoo, i am too even though i'm a seokmin and chan girlie (hansol is coming at me these days though...)
BF!WONWOO who's a silent lover, but who loves you so much that everyone can see who smitten by you he is.
another member of seventeen that i think is a very good listener. wonwoo is always ready to listen to you when you need to talk, be that because something funny happened to you or because you had a bad day. and he's also really good at giving you advice when you have a problem. he strikes me as someone who's emotionally smart, so it isn't difficult for him to know that you're sad without you having to tell hims. sometimes he'll notice that you're not doing well and he will prepare you a little snack and deliver it with a kiss and a sweet "i love you, i'm here if you need to talk." that almost makes you tear up from how caring he is. also, wonwoo's hugs must feel incredibly good, like being engulfed in a warm bubble of love that's so soothing you immediately relax in his embrace. you could literally spend your whole life hugging him because it's genuinely the best feeling in the world.
"it's okay darling, i'm here now. everything is going to be alright."
wonwoo would love to play video games with you. it's good if you are already into it, but it would be even better if you don't because he would love to teach you how to play his favourite games. he would even use it as an excuse to make you sit on his lap while he's trying to show you how to play. from there, you would often play together, but it's also not rare for you to simply sit in wonwoo's lap and watch him play, or take a nap there, lulled to sleep by his breathing and heartbeat. one of his favourite ways to spend a date night at home with you is playing board games. you'd pick out one or two games together, make yourself some tea and prepare snacks and then you'll spend your night playing together. the members often joke about how the two of you are like an old couple but you don't care because what matters is that you're having fun during these game nights. also, wonwoo loves to just stay at home with you, all cozy in your matching pajamas and getting to see you all relaxed. he obviously loves it when you're dressing up when the two of you are going out, but you're the most beautiful to him with only a big beautiful smile on your face.
"let's just watch a movie tonight, i don't want to see other people, only you."
he's adamant on reminding you of how beautiful you are every single day. and that's the way he says it that makes you blush - like it's the most natural thing ever and that it's obvious. however, when it's your turn to praise wonwoo, he gets shy and bashful, and you literally have to fight him to get him to accept the compliment. but wonwoo loves your insistence on adoring him and he loves the attention - he's down bad for you, but it's good to know that you're down bad for him as well. he would often take photos of you without you noticing when he thinks you look particularly pretty. he won't show these pictures to you, but he has folder of them on his phone and on his computer too, and he looks at them when he's away from you and that he misses you. wonwoo would put all these secret photos into a pretty album he made and decorated himself, and he would gift it to you for your anniversary. overall, he would gift you a lot of mindful things like these, and you keep all of them in a little box under your bed.
"when did you take this one nonu ?" - "when we went to the botanical garden, you were so pretty that day."
BF!WONWOO who's a service top and who loves to please you, but who can also get a little bit mean when he wants to.
wonwoo definitely loves cockwarming with you. when you sit on his lap while he's playing video games, it's not impossible that he'll end up pushing your panties to the side and slipping his cock inside of you, not moving at all. he just loves the intimacy of it, how much you trust him and relax into his touch immediately. but it's impossible to not get hard when your pussy feels this wet and this warm, nor when you're sometimes clenching around him. wonwoo usually gives up pretty quickly, because he loves the feeling as much as you. most of the time, he would grip your hips and help you drop down on his cock slowly until the both of you cum. but when he's feeling more needy, he would bend you over his desk and fuck you rough from behind until you're screaming his name. but sometimes, you can stay like this for a long time, even managing to fall asleep because it feels so warm and safe to be so close to him. it's the way you feel so comfortable around him that gets him going mostly.
"just sit on my cock for while baby, then i'll fuck you, okay ?"
overall, wonwoo just loves to please you in every way he can. he's inflexible about foreplay because he loves to have you cumming at least once before he fucks you - his girl should get as much orgasms as possible because you only deserve the best. he woul often keep his glasses on while eating you out, because even if it's the most comfortable for him, he knows how crazy you go when he looks up at you through the fogged lenses and how hot you think he is when he has them on. wonwoo prefers positions where he can see your face as he fucks you, so missionary is a must with him. he loves to see your face contort when you're close to the edge, and he loves to watch you as he brings you to your orgasm - your pretty expressions and the sounds you make often enough to trigger his own release. again, he loves how close he can be to you in this position, chest and forehead pressed against each other's, whispering praises and love confessions against your lips while he ruts his hips into you deep.
"you're so pretty darling… so fucking pretty like this."
despite him being very romantic, he also knows how much you like it when he shows you how strong he is. wonwoo would definitely manhandle you into bending over for him if that's what you want - and he's not gonna lie by saying that he doesn't like it when you become all putty in his hands because he's holding your hands firmly behind your back. it's quite good for his ego too to hear you gush about how attractive he is, how hot his strength and his muscles are. wonwoo also uses it to his advantage when you've been a little tease or that he's frustrated. all these hours spent at the gym are worth it when it allows him to hold you down against the mattress while he pounds into you until you're crying out his name and that tears are running down your face. of course, he's always mindful of any signs of discomfort when he's rougher, but you both love it when wonwoo doesn't hold back and ruins you. it feels rewarding to know that he can make his girl scream his name so loud that the neighbors complain the next day.
"i'm not gonna let you go until you're dripping baby, i need to have you again."
#the wonwoo brainrot is real#eli answering your questions#eli's moots#dinna's asks#seventeen x reader#seventeen smut#seventeen hard hours#seventeen hard thoughts#wonwoo x reader#wonwoo smut#wonwoo hard hours#wonwoo hard thoughts#jeon wonwoo
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hello a request for how you think svt would react to their s/o crying about something that is honest to god objectively silly? please and ty po 🤲🏼
ot13 reacting to you crying about something incredibly dumb


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okay for the sake of saving my brain from thinking too hard, let’s say reader is crying bc they watched a tiktok that explained how a specific type of fish are born with the instinct to immediately escape their parents bc they eat their young lmao (yes, this happened to me and yes, i cried. mind ur business)
note: afab!reader, mention of period in woozi’s
seungcheol 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟
he sees you crying on the couch, staring at your phone, and immediately sits down next to you and puts an arm around you. he’ll ask what happened, voice all soft around the edges so that you’re not overstimulated on top of the little meltdown you’re having. did you get bad news about something? did someone say something mean to you? were you watching a sad movie? please let it be a sad movie. you finally look up at him and show him your phone, where he sees a fish tank, and he frowns. you explain the tiktok you were just watching and he begins to laugh but immediately cuts it off with a cough when you begin to cry even harder. he’s all “okay, okay, i’m sorry, baby!” “i know it’s not funny!” “you’re right, it’s sooooo sad!” “me? yeah, i’m sad too! of course i’m sad!” and he does his best to convince you he’s right there with you, sad about these fish, but really, he’s just trying his hardest not to laugh—not because he thinks you’re ridiculous but because he’s so endeared.
jeonghan 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟
his mouth makes a small o as he nods along at this information (that you’re practically wailing at him btw), and when you’re done explaining, he tells you that studies show fish can feel emotions and that he’s sure the baby fish who survive grow up to be very happy and content adults, thinking this will make you feel better. instead, you look at him with new tears in your eyes and you say, “SO THEY CAN FEEL FEAR WHEN THEY’RE ESCAPING THEIR MOM???” needless to say, he spends the rest of the day trying to soothe you (and himself because you’re making him a tiny bit anxious), but when he finally gets you away from your phone (and deletes tiktok behind your back), he cuddles you and strokes your back gently while you fall asleep from the exhaustion of sobbing about fish, and despite the stress of wanting to see you smile again, he thinks about how lucky he is to have such a cute partner that cries about such cute things.
joshua 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟
he stares at you blankly at first but immediately schools his expression into a more empathetic one. “oh baby, i’m so sorry, that sounds so… scary…” he tries not to make it sound like a question at the end. he’s choosing his words super carefully because he isn’t sure he understands why exactly you’re crying about this, but he knows that it must be important, so he’ll try to get it. it’s risky because it might just make you cry more, but he asks some questions to see if he can understand a little better. “how many babies do they give birth to?” “do they eat them right away?” “why do they do that?” “i know they have an instinct to get away, but do you think the babies know what’s happening?” and more, all while gently rubbing your back. fortunately, the questions he asks makes you feel validated in your feelings because honestly, half of the hysteria was knowing you were being a little silly for crying about this. and he doesn’t make you feel silly. you don’t know the answers, so you google them together, and by the end of it, you feel a little more grounded, remembering this is literally just how nature is sometimes lol. joshua makes a mental note to refrain from serving you fish for the next few months.
jun 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟
you have to repeat why you’re crying one or two times because he’s so confused at first. surely, you’re not crying about baby fish. but once you stop crying long enough to properly explain, he thinks he understands it. “oh, that is upsetting,” he genuinely agrees with you. “it’s like if our OCL—” the cat you raise together “—had babies and immediately ate them. that’s so s—” he doesn’t even get to finish the thought because you’re immediately sobbing harder. from there, he panics and tries everything, maybe too many things. he tries cuddling you, he puts on a tv show to distract you, he takes OCL and plops the cat in your lap for comfort, he throws a blanket around you, he makes you soup, etc. etc. by the end of it, you’re tucked into his side, hanging onto him like a little koala bear, the cat stretched out across both of your bodies, both of you exhausted and asleep on the couch.
soonyoung 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟
he immediately starts crying as soon as you finish telling him. “what the fuck? bro, that’s so fucking sad, what the fuck?” while sniffling and sobbing between words. you just sob a miserable “i know!!!” he lowkey regrets asking you why you were crying because he could’ve gone his entire life never having to know this information. he keeps blubbering curses and whining about how there must be something else for them to eat other than their fucking children. “wait, what do fish even eat…?” you frown and admit you have no idea. you hold onto each other on the couch and when both of your hysterics finally subside, you binge-watch the creator’s tiktok account (because despite that sad fact about their pregnant pet fish, they also have a lot of wholesome content), and by the time you’re done, you’re both giggling and talking about buying a fish for yourselves (definitely NOT a baby eating one). “i want one of those goldfish with the fat heads,” he announces. “oooo me too,” you agree. “what would we name our fish?” “horangi.” “seriously?” “what? it’s orange.” by the end of the week, you two have a pair of pet fish (because getting only one would make the fish lonely) named tiger and tony (yes, after tony the tiger; you obviously got zero say in naming them) and a pact to never eat sushi ever again (lasts four days, you cave first).
wonwoo 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟
he watches you intently as you ramble on and on about these baby fish, face carefully blank even though he kind of finds this amusing. he actually heard about this before—maybe he saw the tiktok, or maybe he watched a documentary that mentioned it. he tells you that it’s okay because the fish give birth to so many fry (he informs you that’s what they’re called), and that they hide in plants, or if they’re in aquariums, their owners usually separate them until they’re bigger so a lot of them will survive. you tell him that’s not the point; it’s that fries (he refrains from correcting you and telling you they’re not called fries in plural form 🍟) shouldn’t have to be born with the instinct to run away from their parents because they’re going to eat them. he nods, thinking, okay that didn’t work, and moves on to plan B: simply asking what will make you feel better. you sarcastically say, “i don’t know, can you save all the fries from their mommies?” he smiles and responds, “no, but i can get you some french fries and maybe fried chicken and we can cuddle and watch a movie?” you obviously fight to keep a smile off your face, but you force a pout and shrug like you don’t care (you care). “i guess that’s a start.” wonwoo has the takeout in front of you within the hour, and with the comfort of your boyfriend’s arms around you while you watch the movie, you forget about the fish for the next 24 hours… until wonwoo casually makes a joke about how you were crying about fish moms eating their fry and the only thing that helped you feel better was eating fries (he finds out the hard way that it’s too soon).
woozi 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟
“huh,” he says slowly after you explain because he doesn’t know what else to say. fish? you’re crying about FISH? as he gathers you into a tight hug on the couch and rubs your arms soothingly, your head tucked under his chin while you sniffle and mumble about evil fish parents, he thinks about why you could possibly be crying about this. he wonders if your time of the month is coming, but he doesn’t ask, of course, because he values his life. he discreetly pulls out his phone and unlocks it over your back so you can’t see, and he pulls up the period app you have no idea he uses to keep track of your cycle (it’s helpful for him to gauge your needs and feelings, and he’s able to foresee when you’ll need more of his time… and more of your favorite junk foods hehe). sure enough, your period should be arriving in a few days. he knows the drill; he orders your favorite takeout for delivery, gets your heating pad and some blankets, and makes you spearmint tea (he read somewhere a few months ago that it helps with menstrual symptoms and it seems to work with you). in short, he does a phenomenal job of helping you regulate your emotions, and you feel yourself again after dinner is done. you spend the rest of the night in each other’s arms, chatting about random things and sharing kisses until the two of you fall asleep.
minghao 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟
he can’t help but frown a little as you tell him why you’re crying, but when you’re done, he nods. “and why exactly does that make you sad?” he asks thoughtfully. you balk at him. “because the BABIES just know to run away from their MONSTROUS CANNIBAL PARENTS!!! did you not hear anything i said?!” he’s not at all flustered, simply nodding again. “i see. does it upset you because the parents should be safe spaces for their kids?” you nod vigorously. “yes!!!” “and you’re sad because the babies don’t have that and they’re born knowing it?” it’s all information you told him, but somehow, reiterating it the way he does calms something in you. “yes…” you mutter at a more acceptable volume now. “can you imagine knowing from birth that your parents aren’t safe and you’re entering the world with no one?” minghao hums and holds you even tighter. “i can’t. my parents have been great. can you?” “no, my parents would never eat me,” you state petulantly. minghao smiles but doesn’t laugh, knowing it might come across as him laughing at you. “we’re lucky, huh?” minghao asks. “that we have parents who love us and keep us safe and want the best for us.” your tears subside and you nod hesitantly. “and we’re lucky that because we grew up with that, when we have kids, we’ll be parents who love them and keep them safe and definitely don’t eat them.” you laugh at that one and it’s music to minghao’s ears. he takes your hand and squeezes it and you give in, wrapping your arms tightly around him. he tells you how much he loves you and how great of a parent you’ll be someday, and you forget all about the fish, instead letting your head fill up with daydreams about children with minghao.
mingyu 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟
you know that clip of mingyu at a concert and mid-ment, the crowd randomly starts screaming so he looks up, all confused and goes “wae?” in tiny? that’s exactly how i picture him asking “what?” when you tell him about the baby fish. he’s half mortified at what you just told him, but still so concerned about your emotional state, he can’t fully lose himself in the horror of knowing there are fish out there that give live birth and immediately eat their children. he holds you as you cry, his arms tight around you because he knows that’s the weight you prefer when you’re sad or anxious, but he’s kind of just looking off into the distance, as much disturbed by this information as you are sad. after a few minutes of hugging and soothing, you sigh and wipe the last of your tears away and smile, thanking mingyu for not judging you and taking care of you, but when you pull away, you see the faraway look on his face and you frown and ask him what’s wrong. “i… i just can’t believe there’s a mommy fish out there eating her newborn kid right now…” you’re alarmed by how distraught he is (no, you do not stop to think that this is the kind of distress you probably put him through on a near daily basis), and you switch gears, becoming the comforter instead of the comfortee. the tactic that wins is letting him lay down, full weight on top of you, his face pressed against your chest as he quietly complains about how crazy fish are. “like, why even decide to be parents? just live your life without kids and eat other things! it’s so irresponsible, bringing a child into the cruel ocean just to eat them.” and you hum and agree with all his points, smiling a little at how cute he is (okay, maybe now you realize how funny it is that you were so upset about this).
seokmin 𓆡𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟
the gradual terror that seeps into his face the longer you talk about these cannibalistic fish moms is so funny, your rambling and weeping eventually peters out and you kind of just giggle at his expression. “how can you laugh at a time like this?!” he asks, panicked about all the baby fish in the ocean with no parents to rely on. he starts complaining about how we have enough to worry about with the ocean without throwing baby eating moms into it: unsustainable fishing practices, dying coral, deep-sea monsters, “except that one anglerfish, she is not a monster.” you ask what he’s talking about and he makes the mistake of showing you the story and the fanart people made of it (another one to really drive the point home). you decide this is a million times worse than cannibal fish moms and you’re both violently scream sobbing for the next hour. [a/n: fucking crying again looking at these links i fucking hate it here bro she just wanted to see the sun bro]
seungkwan 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟
soooooo perplexed. keeps going “hm?” “huh?” “this is about fish?” “wait, what? is this a story?” you’re actually starting to get a little irritated at all the questions, you end up yelling your answers without knowing it and he’s just like “aigoo aigoo ok ok alright” and he gives up trying to understand, just running both hands up and down your arms and peppering you with kisses even though you’re trying to shove him away for taking too long to understand why you’re so upset about the baby fish. you settle down and relax after a few minutes of him holding you and saying sweet things, but then he has the nerve to joke that he’s craving sushi now. needless to say, you’re giving him the silent treatment until he agrees to watch all of this creator’s videos so he can understand how serious and sad this is (he’s not sad; he thinks the fish are very cute but he’s good at pretending he is).
vernon 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟
opposite of dk—face doesn’t change even a little bit the entire time you tell him why you’re crying. not a muscle moved, just listening very seriously and intently. at the end of it, he nods and goes, “ah! yes, i heard about this before,” he says calmly. “but you can’t really fault the parents, babe. they’re small but highly predatory fish, and they instinctively eat anything that moves, so they mistake the babies for prey. if you think about it, maybe the babies should develop the instinct to stay still when born instead of immediately swimming away. maybe it’s the babies’ fault.” he keeps going, not registering the look on your face as utter bewilderment. “besides, those babies grow up to do exactly what their parents do. so really, they’re not even trying to break the cycle of generational trauma, y’know?” when you have no words to respond, he smiles and reaches for the remote before he puts an arm around you and turns the tv on. “anyway, should we watch finding nemo? maybe that will make you feel better.”
dino 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟
very serious about this because you crying about anything is Very Serious™️ to him. he is relieved when he realizes it’s nothing harmful or damaging to you, but he stills gets angry at those “stupid fish who have zero business procreating” on your behalf. when he sees the hint of a smile at the corner of your lips, he starts really playing it up and exaggerating it until you’re giggling and rolling your eyes and telling him to stop and that he’s so silly. your giggles are like drugs to him so he absolutely does not stop. “hey, what are you giggling for?! this is horrible news! should we protest? make signs? go to the aquarium? ask to speak to a manager? demand basic fish rights for these baby fish? this is so ridiculous! inhumane—or whatever you call it when it’s fish!” he storms off, grumbling under his breath about the nerve of these “so-called parents,” and you follow him, cackling the whole way. when he stops, you wrap your arms around him from behind and thank him for making you laugh. his play anger dissipates and he smiles widely, turning around so he can properly wrap his arms around you. “feel better, baby?” “mhm.” kiss kiss smooch ɔˆз(ˆ⌣ˆc)♡
a/n: this was my first reaction request and tbh i was intimidated having to figure out how each member would react in my head but this ended up being really fun LOL. the creator in question is fish4everchannel on tiktok! they explained how they needed to get more plants for their aquarium to prepare for their fish to give live birth bc the babies need to hide as soon as they’re born and i was crying so hard for no reason lmao. don’t get me started on the anglerfish, though. i would’ve made that the scenario but 1. there is nothing “silly” about her she is everything to me and 2. i fully believe each member would just cry along with reader and i will take no arguments ┐( ̄ヘ ̄;)┌
#seventeen x you#seventeen imagines#seventeen scenarios#seventeen headcanons#seventeen fic#svt x you#svt imagines#svt scenarios#svt x reader#{ 💌 } → bbchoco requests#{ 📝 } → joshujin fic
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i need to talk to you guys about the colors of the Cattons (Felix specifically) and Oliver. the clothes they are wearing are telling the story of Oliver taking over and leaving his mark throughout the whole movie, with Oliver's failures and successes and a final triumph. holy shit. get in. this is long and ends in ancient greek culture trivia. let;s talk please.
disclaimer: am starting from Oliver's arrival at Saltburn. before that the outfits are also very intentional, but it's a lot more complicated and it has been discussed before. the world distorts once we are at Saltburn and the story gets truly gothic there, and every detail—including color!—is enhanced in meaning. also, special thanks to @kivlaro for doing this with me, the thoughts on this specifically and the Saltburn craze on the whole. pics and detailed analysis under the cut!
let's start from the beginning. here is Oliver at the door. simple, blue shirt.
the shirt is sort of its own character. logically it makes sense as Oliver's suitcase is small and he spends the whole summer there, of course he'll rewear stuff a bunch. but it is blue.
in contrast to Felix, in yellow. yellow is one of Felix's colors (he is the sun, which i've talked about here btw, so this makes sense).
same to Pamela, in blue. first time we see her, she is next to Elspeth, wearing the color that is Oliver's, taking the place that he takes right away, in this very scene. the only other time she is physically present on screen is at dinner, in black and white, and black and white are a blank slate. she is stripped of color and gone very fast.
a bit of crucial data for later: Oliver, in blue, and Felix in pink. pink is very important on Felix. this is their first morning together. they are separate and opposite, solid, contained.
where it starts to get good is the morning after the vampire strike.
Venetia is a Felix extension, just as everyone in the house is to Oliver. i will eventually rant about Saltburn as a whole entity and Cattons as aspects of one self, and Oliver as psychosis, but not here. so, yes, Venetia is a pink riot, a euphoria of self-containment because Oliver gave her a piece of something she felt she lacked to feel whole (validation, attention, care), not a piece of blue, of himself. Oliver is expectedly solid blue. Felix is incredibly interesting and something i didn't pay much attention to at first: predominantly blue, incredibly upset at Oliver for ditching him, with a tile of bright red (on the left! close to heart! over-reaching here but like still!), which still tracks. i mean, really, if i had so much foreign color bleed into me and then abandoned, i'd be pissed, too. nice little touch is sir James' beloved hydrangeas, behind Felix, also pink, very pink, always pink; i don't think i've seen them blue in the movie, although the sort exists.
Farleigh. sweet baby Farleigh i love you. I'm not dead-set on my interpretation of this specifically but i think multiple things are happening with Oliver and Farleigh here. like Rent, which is their song, blue is their color of outsiders and the triers to fit in. Farleigh points out the favoritism and preference of Oliver to him and his mother here, so it may also be appropriation of color to draw attention to Farleigh as almost (but never quite) Oliver. it may also be as simple as that Farleigh, as much as he denies and resists, still retains Oliver's influence, which bleeds into him very slowly.
a nice little moment of Felix wearing blue swim shorts with just tiny specks of a pink pattern. Oliver's shorts also have a bit of pink, but less than Felix's. Oliver is pretty good at remaining unaffected and uninfluenced overall.
and we're getting to where it all clicked and started for me. the Quick family house, the failed reconciliation, and the immediate aftermath. oh it's so good.
on the drive there, Oliver is blue, Felix has a pink polo shirt with a solid blue pullover over it. this is the most blue Felix has ever been (this is the most blue he will ever be!), this is trust. however shaky and toxic it is, Felix loves Oliver and accepts him into his world. as a side note, Oliver's parents are also very blue, mom more so than dad. nice!
and then it crashes. immediately after, it's the evening of the same day, but Felix is not wearing the blue pullover anymore. this is very, very important. this is rejection. it's the end for Oliver in Felix's world and with his trust. Felix, again, in solid pink, Oliver in solid blue. Felix successfully rips him out with the roots and everything. ouch.

daddy. sorry. is that highlighter? sweat? fuck. let me- daddy. SORRY
no i actually have a point about this.

the clothes are replaced by the lights, but we roll with it. Oliver basks in the blue-green light, while Felix is on the other side, in pink and purple and red. sure, blue shines through, and Oliver also walks through the slashes of pink, but it is mostly pretty separate, Oliver watching Felix's pink in his own blue from a distance.
the morning after palette is deep. the wine color that is so prominent in these scenes is fascinating to me. if i were to over-reach again i'd say it's the Oliver in Felix's attributes and in his place that requires the robe to be so dark, not usual definite pink, because deep blue has leaked into the color itself, mixed with it, made itself integral to the shade. but it's also just a nice color, and it is pink in its core. the flowers (with sir James in the background) i think are also this specific shade for the same reason. you look at what remains of Felix everywhere here, and it is his color.
and finally oh the lunch scene. the last supper. the judgement day. the who's afraid of virginia woolf madness.
i think we've established what's up with Oliver, but i also think it's important that he is his own color at lunch but in Felix's pink/wine right before and after. lunch is where he attacks, whereas before and after is where he grieves and enjoys. Farleigh is almost completely blue save for a strip of the same deep pink, and he is soon cast out, and Venetia is striped, blue and pink/salmon, affected deeply by Oliver yet still clinging on to the Catton pink with grief, probably, but also love for Felix.
and after all this, Oliver leaves himself.
no, like, actually, literally himself. sure, he'd got a taste of the Cattons and the pink, but he is a monolith, a solid blue when he leaves Saltburn. he has not been affected by the house, he has taken what he wanted but stayed true and whole. what a power move, honestly.
but it's an even bigger deal that 16 years later, Elspeth runs into Oliver wearing all white and a blue scarf. oh, she's not let this go, alright; it was a long time ago, "but not to me," she says. What Oliver has been up to in that time is a great question, without a doubt he's been keeping tabs on the remaining family as much as he could; but Elspeth has never moved on, either. She has held on to Oliver's blue and the pink is not important at all now. Oliver, of course, is invariably, unwaveringly blue. welcome back to his show.
and welcome back to his triumph.
the only color (except for, again, white and black) we see him wear in the flashback about Saltburn inheritance is the all-too familiar deep pink. wine. bright pink mixed with deep blue.
now i will take a liberty and step back, over-reach, over-interpret and go insane. here's a fun bit on ancient greek culture trivia for you.
this is an interesting and complicated historiographical and linguistic debate that i will not even attempt to relay here, but the essence of it is this: for us, the sea is conventionally deep blue. historically, one of the most prominent civilizations considered "deep wine" to be the descriptor for it (not necessarily the color but the property. highly rec to look this up it's so fascinating). what it gives me here is that Oliver has changed color, but not his self. he has integrated, mixed, but persisted, completely winning over, triumphing. long live the king!
in conclusion, i would just like to propose "colors" by halsey as the next cattonquick anthem. thank you for your attention, please let me know your thoughts. yours, yes, you. cheers. god. peace out
#saltburn#cattonquick#quickstart#oliver quick#farleigh start#felix catton#venetia catton#mine#saltburn journaling
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sometimes i forget that caleb is the most disliked character in the fandom because of the side of this fandom im on lol,
i def can see why people may not like him (the stronger pseudo c3st implication in the cn version ESPECIALLY) personally that was an aspect of him i wasn’t sure of as well, but i think the english version does well with turning it into more of an eren and mikasa type of situation (thankfully tbh),
but honestly, i feel like i see a lot of him being mischaracterized. idk, maybe i’m wrong but like..
all jokes aside, so many people hateeee the way he’s more of a dark romance, obsessive yandere esque type, but i just feel like that’s such a shallow perspective of his character (like yes he is but also he’s so much more than that)
his trauma runs so deep i don’t get how people could miss that that’s such a LARGE part of why his character would act the way he does. that man is literally under the control of his abusers and had his arm ripped off and had to fake his death. LIKE???? god, i feel like infold has done such an insane job at making incredibly complex characters, and i love that aspect so much about the game, the DEPTH.
but yea, just wanted to share, i feel like i’ve probably made a post about this before, and i think it’s totally valid if you’re still not a fan, not saying anyone HAS to like or accept it, but just wanna show that there is so much more to it than just the face value tropes that people tend to tie to the characters.honestly, i almost fell for it too, originally did not like Caleb at ALL(and god look at me now), same with Xavier btw (all the sleep and boring jokes, but i think his story is very sad actually) GIVE YOUR LEAST FAV A CHANCE! CHANCES ARE YOU WILL PROBS ACTUALLY LIKE THEM A LOT!
#ty for coming to my ted talk#love and deepspace#lads#lnds caleb#love and deepspace caleb#lads caleb#love and deepspace x reader#caleb#loveanddeepspace#lads zayne#love and deepspace xavier#lads xavier#xavier love and deepspace#love and deepspace sylus#lads sylus#lnds zayne#zayne love and deepspace#lads rafayel#rafayel love and deepspace
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ii am crashing out so hard please tell me about your gunky goopy guy (slime) doesn't really matter what au he could fit in so many people..........
You are so right. He is extremely edible, and thats exactly why i have two aus specifically about that happening (im using this post as an excuse to rant about my slimecicle nom aus, buckle up and strap in)
Im specifically gonna talk about an au that i havent talked about here yet, because we already kinda know about vore-ogins smp. This one, is called AWOOTS.
Yes. The name is dumb. But it specifically stands for "A Way Out of This Slimy Situation" which is the title of the fic and i find it kinda sums it up pretty well. Basically, charlie, a human peasent in a hidden medieval mountian kingdom, gets trapped away from home and forced to survive in a world where everything is out to eat him. Including the thing that saves his life.
A pack of 20 foot tall shadow wolf creatures rampage his town and take him and a few others back out into the wilderness as a later snack. Charlie manages to escape their den, but cant outrun them once they realise hes gone. In comes 70ft tall Slime to the rescue (yes theres two slimes in this au, idk why i do this with every fic but i like the dynamic they have :] also hes based off c!slime if that gives an idea of his character) and charlie is fucking terrified, for valid reasons. Slime, being the nature gaurdian he is, beats the crap out of the shadows and then goes to check on charlie (who is actively bleeding out) and of course notices his injuries. Charlie is scared, tired, and woozy from blood loss, and the last thing he sees before passing out is the back of slimes throat as he gets swallowed whole.
Next thing he knows, he wakes up on a bed of moss feeling better than he has for the last ten years of his life.
TLDR: charlie gets trapped outside his walled in kingdom and finds a giant slime who saves his life. Slime has healing abilitys, but because of the magic that's used, healing is super painful, so he uses the numbing acid in his stomach to provide anesthesia before properly healing charlie. Charlie consequently decides to stay with slime because going off on his own is a death sentence and slime literally wont let him leave on his own even if he wanted to. (He is a giant puppy who gets incredibly attached to him.) And all while this is happening, Schlatt and Ted back in the mountian kingdom believe charlie's dead, and are actively grieving him to varying amounts of success (schlatt is guilt stricken because he thinks he couldve saved charlie but no matter what he did, it wouldve ended the same way)
Anyways yeah, thats AWOOTS. By the time charlie gets back home, hes gotten accustomed to slimes show of affection (eating him and going to sleep) and so when he tries to explain to Schlatt and Ted that "yes, the giant slime monster that ate me is actually my friend" you can imagine how well they took it.
Anyways HERES SOME ART!! Slight blood warning for #5 !!!







I think the best thing about this au is that before i realised there was a nonesexual vore community, i managed to get a whole slimecicle fan server (it was mostly just the people in the art channel) invested in this story, and nobody seemed to clock that it was about vore. Like actually, there is fanart of these guys (WHICH BTW IS SO GOOD OMG) and no one even batted an eye when i explained how and why Slime ate charlie
Oh i also posted about AWOOTS on my main tumblr blog before i found nsx vore, which is why i havnt talked about it yet in case someone sees the two posts and connects the dots, but like, people took it really well, so that was nice :]
Anyways yeah. Really long post, but this au has a special place in my heart, and to summarize it in a paragraph or two wouldnt properly explain it (i literally had three hour long rant sessions explaining the events of this fic, i could- and HAVE talked for hours about it) i hope this was satisfactory for you pop 🙏
#safe vore#sfw vore#soft vore#nsx vore#mcyt vore#vore talk#tiny!slimecicle#giant!slimecicle#AWOOTS#a way out of this slimy situation#also ty for the ask!!#moot pop
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So...is it just me or were the extreme flaws in Arcane season 2 basically the inevitable result of the both-sides politics and general too-enlightened-and-smart-and-cool-to-have-strong-opinions attitude of the first season?
The whole "Suuuure Piltover oppressed Zaun for years through wealth inequality, police violence and ecocide buuut the Zaunites are jerks too! Look! Drugs! Prostitution! Terrorism! (gee I wonder what drove them to do all those things?) in season one became:
"and all of it is just a cycle of pointless violence that will never solve anything and that's why the Zaunites should pretty much just accept their position and patiently wait for Piltover to be nice and grant them basic respect by resolving things peacefully.
See? You can even get one seat at the council which overwhelmingly outnumbers you and still represents your oppressors. Smiles all around! I guess the Zaunites just needed to believe in themselves and be the bigger person in this fight that Piltover started. Because, as we all know, violence has never had a historical record of changing things."
(all of this right in the aftermath of the Gaza war and also Vi's voice actor Hailee Steinfield posed for pics with the actual IDF btw)
The "we support gay rights, as long as one of them's a cop so the audience knows they're not, y'know, one of THOSE gays" became:
"and that's why it's fine that Caitlyn basically coerced Vi into becoming a cop too and then struck her for not letting her endanger a child. CaitVi 5evah! Jinx just needs to grow up and stop being so selfish and jealous and possessive! This kind of volatile highs and lows and emotional turmoil are normal for lesbians, right?"
(like I've seen the whole "7 years in prison vs one month in a lesbian relationship" meme and I get the joke is supposed to be all "haha relationships toxic" but like...is that not literally just lesbophobia?)
The "yeah, we condemn police brutality, IF it's coming from nameless faceless cops who you have no personal connection to whatsoever. If it comes from a main character you're supposed to like, we'll just excuse it away bc they're hot" became:
"and so now all the blame for cops' evil actions, including said main character, will be placed on one generic evil dictator with no exploration of their complicity or the inherent flaws to policing as a system."
"We support mental health awareness! As long as the mental illness leaves you as a hardened badass with cool marketable fight scenes. Deeply rooted emotional scars and unhealthy coping mechanisms are sexy and make you look gritty and tough!" became:
"and that's why all the misery(heheh) from the first season has been ramped up to 11 to the point of feeling gratuitous so we can keep seeing characters constantly sad at all times. And also why now all the fight scenes just basically look like the characters have superspeed instead of at least somewhat believable heightened reflexes from a lifetime of constant violence, leaving them without any of the grounded realism and weight that made them look incredible before"
"Disability deserves representation! Viktor's just such a heckin' valid cool smol bean! As long as it's just basically shown as a reason to feel sad for him and little to nothing else and also he's forced by the plot to be looking for a way to get rid of it."
became
"and now he's looking for a way to solve ALL problems and inequality which has to be a bad thing for some reason and his goal is kind of turned into a suicide metaphor. Also to do it he has to take over the world because we have to keep in line with the original game (even though we already departed from it greatly anyway) and we just made it so it's out of heartbreak over Jayce. Goodness knows we can't just have him actually achieve his original intention of using science and medicine to radically improve society, that would mean fundamentally changing the system!"
#politics#queer#art#arcane#leftism#centrism#liberalism#history#memes#disability#jinx arcane#jinx#caitlyn kiramman#violet arcane#vi#caitvi#caitlyn arcane#viktor arcane#jayce x viktor#arcane jayce#jayvik#lesbian#mental health#mental illness
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ALIEN STAGE RANT
I literally can’t express how incredibly cinematic and beautiful the shots for MY CLEMATIS are. The music elevating every second.
Starting off with this shot —
The switch from them as kids, to this gives me chills every time. The music amplifies that SOMETHING is about to happen. The fact that their hair is flowing slower as well also just adds some sort of dramatic effects to it. I’m not sure how to explain, but it gets me every time.
They’re obviously singing in sync, with the intentions to match each other. Basically, they’re not trying to win or beat the other.
This is an incredible introduction to ALIEN STAGE, because it introduces (arguably( the two most important characters, lays out their relationship, and then they brutally kill off Sua. It has similar vibes to when Riko died in JJK (sorry for the spoilers). Sudden, unexpected and very jarring. However, what sells it the most for me is how VIVINOS uses the characters and their relationships to his/her(?) advantage. The aliens cheering and screaming while Mizi just falls to her knees with an empty expression.
(I love this frame btw. So chilling.)
For example, Ivan kissing Till. It’s very clear that Till is unsure of himself this WHOLE match. He looks nervous, really nothing like round 2 or the FINAL, when he’s full of energy. Till was looking at the aliens, while Ivan had his eyes dead set on Till the whole time. When Ivan kisses him, he clearly tries to push back, but he’s emotionally weak from everything going on. Mainly Mizi being missing, and the fact that he feels like he won’t win this.
Now.. onto my favorite! Luka. Quite the interesting character. He’s won Alien Stage before, so he knows damn well that you can’t win by being fair, and he uses that. His seemingly cold nature also ties in to the fact that he was raised around fear and death, being taught to control himself 24/7. The only time he broke was when he saw Hyuna.
(My DEAR I’m gonna cry 😭)
Hyuna herself KNOWS that Luka is lowkey a bad person in this scenario, especially against Till, since while Till is having a mental breakdown, Luka was on the verge of laughter the whole time. Regardless, Luka isn’t heartless. (Personally, I feel like if he wasn’t raised by Heperu he would be way more chill but I’m biased so 🤷♀️)
As I was saying, Luka only breaks with Hyuna. Ruler of his heart <3
Luka loses absolutely all sense of logic around Hyuna. He ran to her like a child, while she knew exactly what was about to happen so she ran to him to try and protect him.
IT HURTS SO BAD
I have so much more to say but I need to go rewatch all of Alien Stage because it hurts and I love it. Someone lmk when the next episode is coming out
Btw if Luka dies the next episode you’ll see me on the news. TBH I feel like he’s either going to get his shit rocked by Mizi again (So valid of her tbh), have a heart attack or have an asthma attack.
BYEEE I LOVE LUKA!!!
(Btw do you think there are cute little cat alien freaks that look like hairless cats? Like, small little catlike freaks because that would be adorable. The world building is actually insane.)
Hyuna knew that the worst thing she could do to Luka was die. She knew how much that would break him.
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So how do you manage making certain characters more overtly asexual than others in a world where sexuality just generally doesn't exist because they don't like- actually have the anatomy for it? Is it that like- you're representing them in such a way that it's known to US that even if they were humans they would still opt out? Or is it more like- they are specifically made to be more asexual-coded than the other ones are? Or something else? Genuinely curious to see your thought processes on how you're approaching it.
Btw it makes me so so very happy that you created a world where people just. Don't have genitals because I've known at my core that I'm asexual since I was extremely young but with our world being so obsessed with...that stuff, and no one actually like, validating that it's OKAY to not understand these things and I don't HAVE to understand them (it's okay to not understand things sometimes even if everyone else DOES seem obsessed with it), and with a certain family member Ive been stuck with for years now telling me "You won't find a man thats okay with that. Men aren't like that." bc a romantic relationship would be soooo nice....it's just.... caused some issues and it's just really really nice to see a world in which those kinds of subtle or not-so-subtle societal pressures are just simply impossible. It feels very safe, very comfortable, and...I dunno! It just helps! Honestly I had considered making a universe myself with people who had none of that stuff and honestly it just inspires me a bit, so I just might!
Haha! It's a bit tricky! And I'd say I want to try handling it in a way that's a mix of what you're describing!
Within Noisrev, while sexual intercourse does not exist, Noisrevian's still have their own method of reproduction. What exactly does it entail? None of our business! Regardless, Noisrevians who label themselves as ace are generally uninterested in this method or are downright repulsed by it.
For your other point--I am so glad!! ♡ Ever since I was young as well, I knew that I just didn't really connect to the kind of "parts" that humans have or what people do with them, at least in regards to myself. It just always felt very unnatural to me.
It wasn't until a few years back that I realized like, if I didn't want my characters to have those kinds of "parts" I could...just DO that. And no one could tell me otherwise, because it's my work and I can do whatever I want with it! And since doing that I've become a lot happier with my universe, too! And it makes me so so happy to know it can feel comfortable and safe for others!! ♡
I am also glad that to be able to explore romance in it! I find the realm of ace romance to be very small, as even when ace characters exist they are often not the center of the stories. Which is fine! But I've always wanted more! So I decided to create the ace romance I have always dreamed of and I am having so much fun with it! I love making ace characters and exploring their various relationships with others!! ♡
I think if you want to create a "null" world too, then you should totally go for it! You can always change your mind later, but for me I have found it incredibly freeing and I really enjoy it !! ♡
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A Minecraft Movie Trailer Dive
Alright!! I have a hard time talking about things in a more real? manner like this but I feel like it's important to be honest and share thoughts.
So the Minecraft movie trailer is a trailer that exists and it's incredibly upsetting to say the least. i had always had hopes of it being entirely animated and be a sort fo film version of Minecraft: Story Mode but it's clearly not that at all. It's a shame too, it's incredibly disappointing to know it's live action as I am a HUGE advocate for animated movies and blockbusters and such. I think Minecraft is a game that is so fantastical and developed and normalized within it's own plane of existence that trying to translate it as anything other than an animated movie fundamentally goes against what the game is supposed to be.
Minecraft is creativity incarnate. It is a canvas for you to do quite literally anything with. And i think turning it into a pathetic cash grab live action movie is about as hard away as you can get from it's core values. You lazily slap real people to into the game to mock and laugh at and disrupt the flow of it's own universe. Treating this game as if it is nothing but a child' plaything despite the fact that people of any age can play it and find joy and excitement. I think the jokes and the overall childish view of the game is disgusting I think it belittles it, I think Minecraft as a whole, encourages all ages and helps develop personal understanding of the world around us and our own ideals. Maybe we'd like to build a large house, go on, here are hundreds of blocks to choose from! Loads of colors, be free!!! Perhaps you'd like to calm down and play with friends or even challenge yourselves, go on with multiplayer! There's servers and achievements!!! There's plenty of things to do. And I think one of the most important things is that, none of this is wrong or weird. None of this is an incorrect way of playing, nothing you do is bad. This isn't supposed to be humbling this isn't supposed to be stressful or something to laugh at. Your desires and plans are valid.
Perhaps as an autistic individual myself, I find that so comforting. I understand it's just a movie, but it's a movie that fundamentally gets everything wrong about this lovely game. I don't understand how these trailers and jokes and plot points are treated as if it's okay to be bad if it's for children. It's saddening.
Either way, moving onto a different subject that I have much more knowledge about and care too much of, the Piglins.
This trailer shows off that Piglins are meant to be the main antagonists, as well as the The Seer having a role in the plot. I have many problems with this, and I will be discussing this through the lens of my own experiences, especially as it comes to my race. (I am latino for those who don't know)
First things first, no, the Piglins aren't evil by any means. I know a lot of media has a very black and white view of them but honestly, take a moment to think about this.
Piglins are minding their business, having fun, living their lives, when a bunch of explorers come barging into their home, exploiting them for their willingness to barter, stealing their valuables right from their houses, and on top of that, being killed and hurt because they dare fight back and attempt to protect one another.
To me, it's incredibly disheartening to see Piglins being portrayed as some kind of aggressors, savages and barbaric monsters all because they want to protect their way of life. I don't understand how emotionless people seem to act toward them. They aren't even physically accurate to the game models. They wear clothes, they use tools, they talk amongst themselves. It's very disgusting to see how this group that is CLEARLY INTELLIGENT BTW (they make music, tools, clothes, armor, buildings, homes and have a complex social system) being drawn and shown in less clothes, more violent tendencies, a more destroyed home and life, even showing violence among themselves to portray them as anything other than the interesting and complex species they are.
I'm just tired of the racist undertones that most Piglin plots seem to have. I find it insulting to them, i find it concerning regarding the language used. 'barbaric' 'crude' 'savage'
Just makes me angry.
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Big Time Rush Season 2, Episode 2: “Big Time Fans"
Highlights: Lots of property damage, the return of a "Big Time Audition" character, and identity theft!
We begin in Rocque Records, where the guys are waiting very eagerly for something.
Fan mail!!!
They're very excited. Logan even receives a meatloaf via mail, which is incredibly normal.
The lure of said meatloaf (and subsequent guaranteed food poisoning) is so powerful that Logan and Carlos get into a physical altercation over it.
Kendall wants to send his fan their requested photo, a response that swiftly earns the guys a lesson in "Fan Mail Dos and Don'ts"
All good tips, honestly.
Gustavo goes through each point, telling them to never give out personal info or advice, lest some crazed fan show up at their door and beg for help becoming famous. He and Kelly are then promptly hit in the head by the blackboard. And who just knocked it over?
It's Jenny! Their friend who was carried out of the building by security guards in "Big Time Audition." We have not heard of or seen this girl since that moment, so the guys are understandably baffled.
Turns out Carlos sent Jenny an autographed picture and a note saying that if she comes to L.A., they'll help make her famous. He also included a map and directions to Rocque Records. What a sweetheart. The rest of the guys are pretty upset, as they've apparently emphasized many times to Carlos the importance of not making promises he can't keep. There's also the fact that Jenny is a major klutz and brings destruction everywhere she goes. James is particularly anxious about the prospect of subjecting themselves to the inevitable chaos, but, of course, nobody can resist Carlos's pouting. Also, Kendall delivers a quick, little pep talk to help persuade them.
They all agree to help Jenny out and bring her to the Palm Woods, and we learn that James's wariness about Jenny is completely valid. Apparently, she's broken his arm, given him a papercut that he needed surgery for, and burned all his hair off during science class. So, his nervous grimace as they enter the lobby makes sense.
Btw, there's also a B plot that involves Gustavo and Kelly attempting to fix a thermostat that Jenny broke. And they need to do it quickly because "Death Smash" (the world's most destructive band) has rented out the studio and threaten to smash up Rocque Records if things aren't resolved soon.
They're in big trouble.
Over at the Palm Woods pool, James is approached by an excited young fan who wants to learn the Art of Being Awesome. James, who has apparently had all the tips on fan interaction wiped from his brain in a matter of hours, agrees to mentor the kid. Katie comes by and warns him to be careful. He won't.
Also, I remember loving James and Katie's relationship during the series. Seeing that little glimpse of it here is nice.
We move into 2J then, where Logan, Kendall, and Carlos are strategizing how to locate a band willing to hire a singer who can't make toast without being catapulted through a wall. They're feeling pretty pessimistic, but Logan has a possible solution.
You know what? As extreme a response as it seems, Logan is absolutely the one most likely to snap first under pressure.
Kendall shoots the idea down and delivers his second pep talk, assuring his friends that they can do this.
(also, I'm loving the purple on Logan and Carlos. very nice)
At the Palm Woods gym, James and his mini me are working out.
Katie is there too, getting some boxing practice in (love that), and she tries again to warn James to be more careful. It's in one ear and out the other, though, since James has convinced himself that Katie merely has a major crush on him and is following him around. Seeing as her words aren't working, she resorts to a good punch in the gut.
Oh, and this isn't really related to anything, but I've always thought about how James and Katie are the ones who look like brother and sister in the show. If I didn't know anything about the show and was just shown a picture of the cast, I'd definitely assume they were the siblings. Kendall and Katie don't look related at all. (shout out to the "Kendall and Katie were adopted" headcanon that I've always found interesting to ponder)
Rocque Records is now a wind tunnel.
I'm 100% convinced that nobody in the BTR universe can ever have anything even remotely resembling a normal day.
This is a theory further strengthened by the way James's plot is developing.
His new little buddy hits him over the head with a frying pan and kidnaps him. And for the life of me, I cannot fathom how the kid managed to do it. Maybe he threw it?? There's no way he was able to reach high enough to actually whack James in the head.
Anyway, Kendall and Carlos have reached the end of the road in being able to help Jenny. Camille then comes by and suggests they look into international bands. The guys are overjoyed that they might be able to both fulfill their promise AND keep Jenny far away from them.
James is in a dog cage. His number 1 fan has devised a plan to take his place in the band and has also put together a very convincing story as to where James has gone.
Jenny's audition for the agents doesn't go well. We cut from her about to strum a guitar to Ted Garcia informing people of an explosion that injured several international talent agents.
And guess who saves James from the dog cage? Katie, obviously. They share a sweet hug.
Love James's emphatic, "He was so tiny and evil!"
Katie asks James to give her an "autograph", but since he's an airhead and doesn't pay attention to anything, he actually signs an agreement giving Katie the authority to become his manager when he goes solo, endorse a line of haircare products, and there's also something in there in which he acknowledges that she DOES NOT have a crush on him.
I paused the episode in the hopes the document would actually outline all these things, but it's just a standard lease agreement (with the words HAIR CARE thrown in at the bottom).
We go back to Rocque Records, where Logan, having been recruited by Gustavo, fixes the wonky A/C. It also sucks the lead singer of Death Smash into the vent system and tosses him outside in a dumpster. Logan, Kelly, and Gustavo prepare for their demise, but it turns out the other two members hated the guy. They share their complaints.
When I tell you that I busted out laughing at this scene. I'd totally forgotten about it. The dude was forced to speak with a fake British accent!!
Sadly, their tour is going to have to be cancelled unless they can find a replacement singer who's "super destructive."
Jenny Tinkler then falls through the ceiling. Welcome to "Death Smash," Jenny!! Yayy, the boys get to fulfill their promise!
Carlos promises to never over-promise again. Two seconds later, another old classmate of theirs, Buddy Simmons walks in, announcing how Carlos had promised to help make him a famous Jazz tuba player. The episode ends there.
This is a really fun one. I was surprised at how often I was laughing out loud, totally caught off guard by a joke that I'd forgotten about. There's also that scene toward the beginning, where the guys are lecturing Carlos about the promise to Jenny, where Carlos asks, "Is the bad stuff over?" that gave me whiplash because I have SUCH a clear memory of that line being in the previews on Nick for the episode. I remember seeing that commercial for the episode probably a dozen times, so that line brought it all back.
I do wish we had seen Jenny again after this episode. She's a fun character, and I'd love to know more about the dynamic between her and the guys. Carlos mentions they'd been friends with her since Kindergarten, which is cute. Although, it also raises some questions timeline-wise in regards to when they all met. I know there's that episode where Kendall says he met James in kindergarten, and James gets all upset and specifies that it was someone's 5th birthday party. Which would be kindergarten, or preschool even, so I suppose that checks out. Logan joined them in third grade (?), and I don't think we get details on Carlos. So...I dunno.
Anyway, I hope Jenny had a successful career and kept in touch with the guys. I also wonder what happened to the kid who trapped James in the basement. Like, were the authorities called or...? I'm sure it was all brushed off and immediately forgotten about, as are all the absurd happenings in the BTR world.
I just realized Mama Knight was nowhere in this episode. I can imagine her getting home later, seeing all the destruction in 2J, and having a very interesting discussion with her boys about how their day went.
Kendall pep talks: 2 in this episode!
#big time rush#btr#btr rewatch#btr season 2#kendall knight#james diamond#carlos garcia#logan mitchell
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